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Bowels Opened
Bowels opened, or, A discovery of the near and deer love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every believing soul Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixth chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his own pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.Bovvels opened, or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable societie of Grayes Inne, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his owne pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
Sermon 3 › I sleep, but my heart waketh.Sermon 3 › I sleepe, but my heart waketh.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We see here after a feast the Church falleth asleep, see it in Abraham, sometimes strong in faith, sometimes fearful. David sometimes standing, sometimes falling, sometimes recovering himself and standing faster, sometimes triumphing, the Lord is the light of my countenance,1 whom shall I fear; sometimes again, I shall one day fall by the hands of Saul, 2in the very same Psalm he begins with Rebuke me not in thy wrath, and ends with Away ye wicked. Elijah, though zealous, yet after flies for his life. So Job, Peter, sometimes resolute and valiant, otherwhile sinks for fear.
We see here after a feast the Church falleth asleepe, see it in Abraham, sometimes strong in faith, sometimes fearefull. David sometimes standing, sometimes falling, sometimes recovering himselfe and standing faster, sometimes triumphing, the Lord is the light of my countenance,1 whom shall I feare; sometimes againe, I shall one day fall by the hands of Saul, 2in the very same Psalme he begins with Rebuke me not in thy wrath, and ends with Away ye wicked. Elias, though zealous, yet after flies for his life. So Iob, Peter, somtimes resolute and valiant, otherwhile sinks for feare.